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Lillian Schlissel is professor emerita of Brooklyn College-CUNY, where she was director of American studies. Her books include Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey; Far From Home: Families of the Westward Journey, written with Byrd Gibbens and Elizabeth Hampsten, Western Women, Their Land, Their Lives; and Western Women’s Reader (with Catherine Lavender). Schlissel is a member of the editorial board of Studies in American Jewish Literature and is working on a history of five women of American vaudeville.

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	Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel, Mary Clearman Blew (Introduction) 4.03 avg rating — 1,447 ratings — published 1982 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Plays by Mae West: Sex / The Drag / The Pleasure Man by Mae West, Lillian Schlissel (Editor) 3.71 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850 by Kenneth L. Holmes (editor), Lillian Schlissel (Introduction) 4.27 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866 by Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Lillian Schlissel (Introduction), Donald F. Danker (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1959 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel, Byrd Gibbens, Elizabeth Hampsten 3.91 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1989 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West 4.18 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Western Women's Reader by Lillian Schlissel (editor), Catherine J. Lavender (Editor) 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives by Lillian Schlissel (editor), Vicki L. Ruiz (Editor), Janice Monk (Editor) 3.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conscience in America: A Documentary History of Conscientious Objection in America, 1757-1967 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our West really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The women, in the naturalness of their telling, offer a new perception of the relationship between the emigrants and the Indians [Native Americans].”
― Lillian Schlissel, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

tags: emigrants, indians, native-americans, perception, women

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“One must suspect, finally, that many women judged the heroic adventure of their men as some kind of outrageous folly thrust upon them by obedience to patriarchal ritual.”
― Lillian Schlissel, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

tags: adventure, heroic, patriarchal-culture, patriarchy

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